Chapter 35
For a long while, Michelle sat silently on the couch, trying to understand the rage she was feeling. Part of it was most probably caused by the feelings of the original owner left in the body, but the rest was caused by the fact that deep in her heart, she had accepted the Archduke as her father, so his deceased wife was naturally accepted as her mother. And hearing that her mother was poisoned while pregnant was something disgusting and enraging, making her blood boil.
"Father..." she looked at the Archduke after a while as she stood up. "I won't condensate my spirit energy while they are here, but once they leave, I'll work my way up to get revenge for mother!" she said as she turned to leave. She walked out of the Archduke's office and went to her room. She looked at the sky outside her window. It was already darkening, and she could see the moon rising on the horizon. Her eyes were glued to it as she replayed the Archduke's words in her mind.
Finally, she turned to look in a mirror and stared into her own purple eyes. When they turned blood-red from her rage, she was surprised, but she didn't move. She just let the rage cook up a gruesome plan in her mind. Since she had decided to avenge her mother, she had to start the plan early on. But she had to be cautious so as not to get caught by the two.
After a while, a plan was completed in her head and she smiled coldly, her eyes still blood-red with rage. She walked over to her desk and took a letter paper. She quickly wrote something and put the letter into an envelope. She wanted to go to the butler, but since it was still night, she decided against it and sat on her bed to cultivate. When the sun rose up behind the horizon, she stopped cultivating and went to the butler. "Butler, can you send this letter to the Beltrez mansion? It's for Young Lady Ivona!" she said as she handed him the letter.
Without even giving the butler a chance to say something, she went somewhere else. Back to the Archduke. "Father, I have something to ask you," she knocked on the door before entering.
"What is it that you need in such a hurry?" he asked, and his eyes widened a bit when he saw that her eyes were still blood-red. "Did you walk around the mansion looking like this?" he asked with a raised brow.
Michelle didn't understand. As she had no time to look in the mirror after stopping cultivating, she didn't know that her eyes didn't return to normal yet. "What do you mean, father? Is something wrong with how I look?" she asked with a tilt of her head.
The Archduke noticed and pointed to the window. Michelle glanced at the window and didn't know what she was supposed to look at, but when she noticed her reflection, she realized that her eyes were still blood-red. She touched her face in confusion. "How come...? Father, why are my eyes red?" she looked at the Archduke with a questioning look.
"As you have Spirit Blood, your eye color reacts to your emotions and feelings. When you feel intense emotions, your eyes will turn red. The darker the red, the more intense emotions you are feeling. It will return to normal once you calm down." The Archduke explained. "Anyway, why did you come here in such a hurry?" he asked.